Germany,
France, Italy, and Switzerland Compiled by Research Department
of the Universal House of Justice.

Published
in Baha'i Studies Review 4:1

The
German Bahá'í community, which is certainly the most
prosperous and promising of its kind in Europe, has by
consolidating its internal unity and by extending the basis of its
national Bahá'í institutions increasingly attracted
the attention and excited the envy and admiration of its sister
communities throughout Europe. Esslingen rightly deserves the
attention and interest which it is now receiving from believers
outside Germany. The Guardian's hope is that this interest will be
further deepened during the next few years, and that an increasing
number of visitors will annually flow to that centre, not only to
deepen their understanding of the Cause, but to acquire, through
contact with the German believers, those essential qualities and
attributes which constitute the key to the notable and in many ways
unique success accomplished by the German Bahá'í
community.